'I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking', are the famous lines on the first page. This a semi autobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress, Peter and Otto, a gay couple and the 'divinely decadent' Sally Bowles, a young English woman who was so memorably portrayed by Liza Minnelli.
| ISBN | 0749390549 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780749390549
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 190 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Previous ISBN | 9780749302146 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 02 Nov 1989 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Non-book description | B | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | DEWEY | 823.912 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC19 | |
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"Brilliant sketches of a society in decay." -- George Orwell
"From the Paperback edition."
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